Introduction

The overall concern of this handbook is to provide a set of articulate state-of-the-art accounts that break new ground, with each contribution striving to tease out the distinctively European features of the sociological theme it explores and examines. The aim of the Routledge Handbook of European Sociology is to reveal the distinct aspects of the work of post-Second World War sociologists who have been working in European higher education and research institutions during the last 60 years (1950–2010).